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Principal Investigator
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Liang, Jinyang, Ph.D.		Professional Experience
2025-Present Full Professor, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)- Université du Quebec
2022-2025 Associate Professor, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)- Université du Quebec
2017-2022     Assistant Professor, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)- Université du Quebec
2017   Postdoc, Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (USA)
2012-2016          Postdoc, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

Education
2009-2012        Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
2007-2009        M.S.E., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
2003-2007        B. Eng., Optoelectronic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Selected awards
2023-Present Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Computational Imaging (Tier II)
2024-Present INRS Co-Chair in Nanobiophotonics
Postdoctoral Fellows

Kilcullen, Patrick, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor:
Prof. Tsuneyuki Ozaki)
Education
2018 – 2023 Ph.D. Energy and Materials Science, INRS-University of Quebec, Canada
2014 – 2017 M.Sc. Physics, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
2010 – 2014 B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Awards
2025 Canadian Foundation for the Development of Microscopy (CFDM) bursary
2024 Scientific Direction’s Honour Roll
2024 INRS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
2023 TD Assurance Travel Grant (INRS)
2023 Best Student Presentation Award (Photonics North)
2021 SPIE Best Paper Award (Photonics West)
2019-2022 NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
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Jiang, Cheng, Ph.D.		Education
2018 – 2023 Ph.D. Energy and Materials Science, INRS-University of Quebec, Canada
2014 – 2018  B. Eng., Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Awards
2024 Scientific Direction’s Honour Roll
2024 INRS International Outreach Award
2023 SPIE Best Paper Award (Photonics West)
2021 SPIE Best Paper Award (Photonics West)
2020 COPL Collaboration Scholarship
2020 China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship
2019 SPIE Student Travel Award
2019 INRS-ÉMT Best Presentation Award

Marquez, Miguel, Ph.D.		Education
2018-2022 Ph.D., Physics, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
2016-2018 M.S., Applied Mathematics, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
2010-2015 B.S., System Engineering, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia


Award
2024 Canadian Foundation for the Development of Microscopy (CFDM) bursary
2023 Optica Outstanding Reviewer Award
2021 Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship

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Lai, Yingming, Ph.D.
Education
2021– 2025 Ph.D. Energy and Materials Science, INRS-University of Quebec, Canada
2019-2021 M.Sc. Materials Science, Institut national de la recherche scientifique
(INRS) – Université du Québec, Canada
2015-2019 B. Eng., Optical Science and Engineering, South University of Science
and Technology (SUSTech), China

Award
2024 Canadian Foundation for the Development of Microscopy (CFDM) bursary
2023 TD Assurance Travel Grant (INRS)
2023 Best Oral Presentation Award (2023 UltrafastX Conference)
2023 PBEEE Scholarship (FRQNT)
2022 INRS Best Master’s Thesis Award
2021 FRQNT Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet Award
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Liu, Miao, Ph.D.
(Supervisor:
Prof. Fiorenzo Vetrone)
Education
2021– 2025 Ph.D. Energy and Materials Science, INRS-University of Quebec, Canada
2017-2020 M. Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, China
2013-2017 B. Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Awards
2024 Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize (2024 UPCON Conference)
2023 Prize for the Best Talk – Biomedical (CQMF Conference)
2023 Best Oral Presentation Award (2023 UltrafastX Conference)
Graduate Students

Beniwal, Madhu,
M.Tech, M.Sc.
(Co-supervisor:
Dr. Bruno Schmidt)		Education
2020-2022 M. Tech., Applied Optics, India Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
2016-2018 M. Sc., Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India.
2013-2016 B. Sc., Physics, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India.

Otterstedt, Lars		Education
2019-2023 B.Sc., Engineering Physics, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Liu, Hanzi, M.S.		Education
2020-2023 M.Sc., Optoelectronic Engineering, Huaqiao University, China


Award
2025 FRQNT Bourses de doctorat en recherche
2024 CSC Scholarship

Gholapour, Kowsar (Melody), M.Sc.		Education
2020-2023 M.Sc., Photonics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Iran
Visiting Members

Sepulveda Cofre, Eduardo Andres		Visiting Ph.D. student
Universidad de La Frontera, Chile

Emerging Leaders in the Americas
Program (ELAP) scholarship
Undergraduate Interns
Alumni Last known position
Zhou, Lina, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow, 2024		Associate Professor
Jingdan LiuLiu, Jingdan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2023		Associate Professor
Shanghai Institute of Fine Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Postdoctoral fellow, 2021-2023		Postdoctoral Fellow
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
photo-xianglei liuLiu, Xianglei, Ph.D.
PhD student, 2017-2022
Postdoc, 2022

Ph.D. Thesis: Development and Applications of Single-shot Compressed Optical-Streaking Ultrahigh-speed Imaging		R&D Verification Engineer
Ansys, Montréal, Canada
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M.Sc. student, 2021-2025		Applied Nanotools, Edmonton, Canada
Alvarado Vidal, Alejandro Mauricio
Visiting PhD student – 2025
Emerging Leaders in the Americas
Program (ELAP) scholarship		Ph.D. student at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Garcia, Hans
Visiting PhD student – 2022		Ph.D. student at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Marquez, Miguel
Visiting PhD student – 2021
Emerging Leaders in the Americas
Program (ELAP) scholarship		Ph.D. student at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
Jerez, Andrés
Visiting PhD student – 2022
Emerging Leaders in the Americas
Program (ELAP) scholarship		Ph.D. student at Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

Hoyos Peláez, César Antonio
Undergraduate intern – 2024
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia 
Parghane, Rajvardhan Subhash
Undergraduate intern – 2024
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at Indian Institute of Science, India 
Prado, Marcelo
Graduate intern – 2024
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		M.Sc. student at Federal University of Paraná, Brasil
Yan, Xiaoyue
Undergraduate intern – 2023
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Chen, Qinyi
Undergraduate intern – 2023
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Gomez Ramirez, Alejandra
Undergraduate intern – 2022
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at National University of Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Zhao, Ruyi
Undergraduate intern – 2022
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Senior at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Sheng, Qiyuan
Undergraduate intern – 2021 (online)
Mitacs Globalink Research Award 		Senior at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Peng, Junxin
Undergraduate intern – 2021 (online)		Senior at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
He, Menglin
Undergraduate intern – 2020 (online)
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards		Junior at McGill University, Canada
Yang, Qianwan
Undergraduate intern – 2019
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Ph.D. student at Boston University, USA
Shi, Xiaowen
Undergraduate intern – 2019
Mitacs Globalink Research Award		Graduate student at the National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sun, Haojia
Undergraduate intern – 2018 		Ph.D. student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China